Cloning laptop MVMe m.2 ssd

[headviking]

'm one scared old PC user. Been around and using computers before HD’s and modems. Things have changed and I am at a loss understanding all the new hardware terms and software uses.
Using Win 10 64bit.

At this time I would like to have a complete copy of my operating system and all that it has on the drive. Just so I have a copy sitting in my desk drawer incase my drive fails.

My laptop has a 500g drive MVMe M.2 in it and this is the first time i have opened a laptop to see inside. What I need to know is if I clone my MVMe M.2 drive with another MVMe M.2 drive of the same size using Acronis. Does the cloning process need any extra input during cloning from me? For example do I need to adjust any bios settings. I afraid to come back to a none functioning laptop after cloning.

I watched this youtube video and he mentioned I must enter the bios. Not sure if I need too because I only have one slot for my drive and after replacement I believe it should boot normally. Am I correct?

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Thanks for any advice

John

[PeterOz]

Besides Acronis true image you will need an enclosure for the M2.
You can do a clone and you should not have to enter the bios.
What I would do is clone the drive and then swap drives and make sure it works.
You are better off knowing now rather than when it is too late.

Do you have a backup plan?
Do you have an external drive or nas to backup to?
No use having a clone sitting in the drawer that is out of date, it will not have any new programs or data that are added after the clone is made.

[Bruce]

g’day and welcome to the forums.
never too old to learn!

while I’ve not used Acronis, Macrium Reflect Free will do what you want as well.
depending on how in-depth you want to get with your backups, having a snap shot of your system is one side of the coin.

the other, as Peter has said, is to do regular backups to ‘sync’ the current data on the drive to another location - an external drive for example.
otherwise you will be creating snapshots left, right and centre - every time you change your files.

personally, for example, I take an image of my SSD and save it to my HDD every few months or so.
but every time I log off my PC, I do a backup of changed files to my NAS (network attached storage) device.

[Rustys]

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